Gangsters Paradise - The Soundtrack Singers

[00:00.114]Hip Hop Masters - Gangsta's Paradise
[00:11.806]As I walk through the valley
[00:13.316]Of the shadow of death
[00:14.536]I take a look at my life and
[00:16.126]Realize there's not much left
[00:17.626]Cause I've been blasting
[00:18.966]And laughing so long that
[00:20.486]Even my ma'ma thinks
[00:21.856]That my mind is gone
[00:23.186]But I ain't never crossed
[00:24.326]A man that didn't deserve it
[00:26.026]Me be treated like a punk
[00:27.606]You know that's unheard of
[00:29.206]You better watch how you
[00:30.295]Talkin and where you walking
[00:32.075]Or you and your homies
[00:33.275]Might be lined in chalk
[00:35.015]I really hate to trip
[00:36.235]But I gotta loc'
[00:37.694]As they grew I see myself
[00:38.934]In the pistol smoke fool
[00:40.934]I'm the kinda G the little
[00:42.184]Homies wanna be like
[00:43.244]On my knees in the night
[00:44.794]Sayin' prayers in the street light
[00:46.803]Been spending most their lives
[00:49.383]Living in the Gangsta's Paradise
[00:52.693]Been spending most their lives
[00:54.923]Living in the Gangsta's Paradise
[00:58.453]Keep spending most our lives
[01:00.753]Living in the Gangsta's Paradise
[01:04.203]Keep spending most our lives
[01:06.433]Living in the Gangsta's Paradise
[01:09.733]They got the situation
[01:10.951996]They got me facing
[01:12.132]I can't live a normal life
[01:13.752]I was raised by the strip
[01:15.192]So I gotta be down with the hood team
[01:17.862]Too much television watching
[01:19.322]Got me chasing dreams
[01:20.951996]I'm an educated fool
[01:22.332]With money on my mind
[01:23.772]Got my ten in my hand and
[01:25.322]A gleam in my eye
[01:26.632]I'm a loc'ed out gangsta
[01:28.122]Set tripping banger
[01:29.402]And my homies is down
[01:30.802]So don't arouse my anger fool
[01:32.831]Death ain't nuthin' but a heart beat away
[01:35.251]I'm living life do or
[01:36.441]Die a what can I say
[01:38.321]I'm twenty three now
[01:39.520996]But will I live to see twenty fow
[01:41.331]The way things are going I don't know
[01:43.651]Tell me why are we so blind to see
[01:49.171005]That the ones we hurt are you and me
[01:56.001]Been spending most their lives
[01:58.381]Living in the Gangsta's Paradise
[02:01.761]Been spending most their lives
[02:04.201004]Living in the Gangsta's Paradise
[02:07.601]Keep spending most our lives
[02:09.911]Living in the Gangsta's Paradise
[02:13.061]Keep spending most our lives
[02:15.531]Living in the Gangsta's Paradise
[02:18.951]Power and the money
[02:20.071]Money and the power
[02:21.551]Minute after minute
[02:23.001]Hour after hour
[02:24.47101]Everybody's running but half
[02:26.201]Of them ain't looking
[02:27.031]What's going on in the kitchen
[02:28.591]But I dont know what's cooking
[02:30.201]They say I got ta learn
[02:31.47101]But nobody's here to teach me
[02:32.911]If they can't understand it
[02:34.321]How can they reach me
[02:35.961]I guess they can't I guess they won't
[02:38.461]I guess they front that's why
[02:40.091]I know my life is outta luck fool
[02:41.911]Been spending most their lives
[02:44.45999]Living in the Gangsta's Paradise
[02:47.86]Been spending most their lives
[02:50.13]Living in the Gangsta's Paradise
[02:53.5]Keep spending most our lives
[02:55.84]Living in the Gangsta's Paradise
[02:59.37]Keep spending most our lives
[03:01.75]Living in the Gangsta's Paradise